Kaplumbaga

The question is why do this? Why live so? why compromise comfort, luxury and ease for eternal migration, forever chasing and escaping the seasons according to the chronobiology of a monstrous reptile; becoming so deeply linked to its mysterious choices, governing architecture, economy, childbirth and diet.

Defensive spears jut out from the carapace. Fierce points, but what predator is huge enough to challenge to life of this monstrous reptile?

Girl and Tortoise

A hatchling Tortoise bonds quickly to a single 'village seed' this is a young member of the village. They take with them materials and resources to grow into a new community.

drypoint etching

vineyards and structures

As I study the structures Kaplumbaga's monstrous head swings up slow, graceful, its enormous black eye sweeps a monitoring gaze over the village its steady pace never changing.

Pencil sketch

Mother

Ink and Gouache on paper (20x30cm)

The universe

remembering the Flammerian woodcut by Durer

Painted Linocut (22x17cm)

Citadel

Sketches, thoughts and inventions for the forgotten university of infinite questions

discovered storage of tallow and wax sticks

nooks and shelves for Samovars and urns

Pencil sketch in preparation for etching

Sketchbook

sleeping on the ferry

quiet moment in the pub quiz

silverpoint

Silverpoint portrait

drypoint etches

Bullet Damage

The names are of those lost to the French village of Oradour-Sur-Glane during the first World War. The Marble memorial, found in the shell of the church, was damaged by a Bullet fired in the second world war when when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company